Exam question 2 · Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan…

What was the outcome of the contest over the oak tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: outcome

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1133 «Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan in two, and the brothers meet again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 contest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 contest	det
7	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
10	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 contest	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome				of the contest over the oak tree	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Legless threw the oak seven miles, Armless only three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legless	legless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oak	det
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Armless	punct
8	Armless	Armless	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 three	advmod
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Legless	the oak				Armless obl; three obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent oak=Destination mile=Theme

Option 2

Legless won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legless	legless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 won	amod
2	won	won	PROPN	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Legless threw the oak seven miles across the field, and Armless managed only three before the crowd laughed at him

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legless	legless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oak	det
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 managed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 managed	cc
12	Armless	Armless	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 managed	nsubj
13	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 three	advmod
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 managed	obj
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 laughed	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crowd	det
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laughed	nsubj
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 managed	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Legless	the oak	the field		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent oak=Destination mile=Theme
2	manage	past	Armless	three			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme
3	laugh	past	the crowd			at Armless	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Legless hurled the hare seven miles, Armless three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legless	legless	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurled	nsubj
2	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurled	obj
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hurled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Armless	punct
8	Armless	Armless	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hurled	obl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Armless	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurl	past	Legless	seven miles	the hare			Armless obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hare=Destination mile=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1133-pg29672-part39/e2/